Fan attachment



(Model!) T 0. E. YEATON.

FAN ATTACHMENT.

No. 322,530. Patented July 21, 1885 Wib aesses NITE STATES ATENT Orrics.

FAN ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 322,530, dated July 21,1885.

Application filed May 26, 1884. (ModeL) I To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Enron, of Chelsea, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Fans for Rocking Chairs, which will, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, andspecifically defined in the appended claims.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved fanadapted to be readily attached to and removed from rockingchairs, andwhen so attached to be automatically actuated by the rocking of thechair;

0 and it consists in the construction and combination of the diversdevices embodied therein, as hereinafter more particularly and fully setforth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chair with my invention theretoapplied. Fig. 2 is an elevation taken as from the left hand in Fig. 1,and showing the lower portion of my invention with the means ofattaching it to the chair-rocker, which latter is shown in transversesection. Fig. 3 is a detached elevation taken from the same standpointas Fig. 2, and showing the upper part of my invention. Fig. 4 is a topor plan view of the standard. Fig. 5 is an inverted or under side viewof the fansupporting bracket.

In said views A represents a chair, which is introduced for the purposeof illustrating my invention. 13 is a rocker of the chair; 0, a side barof the seat-base, and D an arm piece or rest. An angle iron, E, having ahorizontal arm, a, curved to correspond to rocker B, and a vertical arm,I), is removably secured to the rocker by means of projecting angles (1(1, formed on arm a, and the thumbscrews 6 therein, threaded, as shownin Figs. 1 2. The upper reduced end, j, of vertical arm I) is inclinedoutward, as shown in Fig. 2, to make room for the upholstery uponarm-piece D; and in the upper edge or face of said part j, I form in thesame horizontal plane a series m, to enter and engage the correspondingindentations in the head of arm I), as shown in Fi 1.

ll n the lower end of standard at is formed the open slot 1), whichreceives the stud Z, formed on arm b, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, said slotbeing of such length as to allow either of hooks q to be interlocked inthe head of arm b, as stated, and as the size of the person occupyingthe chair may require, the fan carried by the standard to be at greateror less distance above the seat 0, while, by means of the series ofindentations 7c, the standard may be arranged toward the front or backof the chair to suit the wishes of the occupant, the stud Z being thepivot of motion of the standard m when so adjusted in indentations 7c.

The fan F is preferably formed with four wings, a, secured to spindletby the socketed brackets a, or in any suitable manner. The fan-spindle tis journaled in arms 8, extending from shank z of the spindle-carryingbracket, said shank i being journaled in bosses n of standard m, asshown in Fig. 3.

Upon the rear end of arm a, I pivot a lever, f, near its lineal center,and in the end of this lever is pivoted the truck h, while to the for-'ward end of said lever I secure cord 00, which passes thence upwardalongside standard in and within the groove in the face of guidingpulleyz, pivoted on an ear of the standard, whence it passes over the groovedpulley b, secured on fan-spindle t, and thence descends to and issecured to the upper end of spiral spring y, the lower end of which isattached to stud l of arm 12, which stud extends through slot 10 ofstandard m, as stated, the spring serving to secure the standard on saidstud.

It will be obvious that when the chair is rocked backward the forwardend of lever f will be depressed by the action of stud g and truck h,and that by the action of cord as spring y will be elongated, and thatthe tension upon the cord, caused by the resistance of said spring, willcause it to rotate the fan 5 and when the chair is rocked forward thecounteraction of the spring will impart a reverse movement to the fan;and hence as the chair is rocked backward and forward a recipr0catingrotary movement of the fan will be maintained.

For convenience in seating ones self in or ICO rising from the chair afin, o, is formed on the fan-bracket at the junction of its spindle zand arms 8, and a corresponding recess, w, is formed in the head ofstandard m, both at its outer side and front edge, said fin being seatedin the former-stated recess when operative; but by'slightly raising thefan, which spring 3 readily admits, it may be turned toward the back ofthe chair, when said fin will be seated in the recess at the front ofthe standard, and so held until changed to the position shown in Fig. 1for use.

Instead of angleiron E, the arm I) for supporting standard at and thepivot of lever f may be'independent each of the other; but theangle-iron is preferable, as thereby the apparatus may be removed fromthe chair and replaced without care in adjusting the parts, each having,by reason of said angle-iron, its proper position relatively to theother. A thin stay, 0, is shown as uniting and strengthening the arms ofsaid angle-iron.

I am aware that it is not new to produce the reciprocating rotation of afan attached to a chair by means of a lever and spring united by a cord,the lever being actuated by the rocking motion of the chair, and thespring being actuated by the lever through the cord. Hence I do notbroadly claim such device; but

What I do claim as my invention is 1. The fan supporting standard formedwith indentations w w, and the fan-bracket formed with a pivoted stem orshank, z, and fin o, to interlock in said indentations, whereby the fanmay be arranged and secured to extend over the occupant of the chair orparallel with the side of the chair, substantially as specified.

2. The fan-supporting standard m, formed with a series of hooks, (1,arranged one above the other, in combination with a support adapted tobe secured to the chair and to be engaged by said hooks, substantiallyas specified.

3. The combination, with angle-iron E, formed with arm a, having clampsd formed thereon, and also formed with vertical. arm I), havingindentations 70 arranged along the line of its upper end, of afan-support formed and adapted to be engaged with said angle-iron,substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the fan-supporting standard m, having a seriesof hooks, q, arranged one above the other, of angle-iron E, having armb, formed with a series of indentations, 7c, arranged along the line ofits upper end and respectively adapted to receive said hooks,substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with standard m, formed with hooks 9, arranged oneabove the other, and with a longitudinal slot, 12, near its lower end,of angle-iron E, formed with arm I), having stud Z, adapted to engage insaid slot, and a series of indentations, is, arranged along the line ofits upper end and adapted to be engaged by said hooks, substantially asspecified.

6. The combination of standard m, having a series of hooks, q, arrangedone above the other, angle-iron E, formed with arm a, having clamps d,and stud g, and arm I), having stud Z, and a series of notches, k,arranged along the line of its top, leverf, having truck h and pivotedon stud g, spiral-spring g and cord 00, secured at one end to thefree'arm of lever f and at the other to said spring, and engaging pulleyb on the fan-spindle, substantially as specified.

CHARLES E. EATON.

WVitnessesi T. W. PORTER, EUGENE HUMPHREY.

